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Raspberry ketone supplements
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trophywench
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Never heard of them. Who says they help and why?
Bruce Stephens
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Do Raspberry Ketones Really Work? A Detailed Review
This is a detailed review of Raspberry Ketones, a popular weight loss supplement that has been shown to be effective in animal studies.
www.healthline.com
grovesy
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I though they were supposed to be a diet fad about 10 or so years ago.
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Hello and welcome.
My advice would be to save yourself some money and follow a low carb diet both to lose weight and manage your diabetes. There is no magic bullet supplement but there are lots of people happy to sell you things that they purport to be.
Many people here on the forum have successfully lost a lot of weight and pushed their diabetes into remission through a low carb diet or if you have a lot of willpower, a very low calorie diet like the Newcastle or Fast 800. If you read through some of the threads you will find details of how they achieved it but if you have any particular questions about it, feel free to ask.
My advice would be to save yourself some money and follow a low carb diet both to lose weight and manage your diabetes. There is no magic bullet supplement but there are lots of people happy to sell you things that they purport to be.
Many people here on the forum have successfully lost a lot of weight and pushed their diabetes into remission through a low carb diet or if you have a lot of willpower, a very low calorie diet like the Newcastle or Fast 800. If you read through some of the threads you will find details of how they achieved it but if you have any particular questions about it, feel free to ask.
Bruce Stephens
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That's what I read from the healthline review: the thing that these (presumably expensive) raspberry ketones (no actual raspberries involved) might increase is also significantly increased by exercise, and possibly by coffee.
I lost a stone after switching meds a couple years ago, over the last couple months I’ve lost another stone following a low carb diet, so they weren’t intended to help with that, I’d heard/read/someone from the gym suggested it can help boost metabolism helping to shift excess fat! I’d read they were not great as they can make sugar levels rise, I wondered if anyone had encountered that!
I have a couple of friends using these ketone products and also trying to sell them too in a pushy way, they are saying how much energy they now have and weight loss, I just keep quiet. Who knows what’s actually in the products and ketosis is something your body will go into naturally so why pay lots of money for this?
Bruce Stephens
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According to the healthline article
The appeal of this product is also due to the word “ketone,” associated with low-carb diets — which force your body to burn fat and elevate blood levels of ketones.
However, raspberry ketones have absolutely nothing to do with low-carb diets and will not have the same effects on your body.
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The molecular structure of ketones is very similar to two other molecules, capsaicin — found in chili pepper — and the stimulant synephrine.
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Welcome to the forum @Suz1971
As far as I am aware there is no robust clinical evidence (like a double blind RCT) that they have any effect at all. I don’t know that there is much if anything in the way of weak observational evidence either.
Frequently pushed / promoted / sold in quite a pushy and spammy way though which always makes me think someone is just out to con people out of hard earned money.
If you want to achieve nutritional ketosis you can achieve that simply by reducing carbohydrate in the diet. 🙂
But for blood glucose management you may find that you din’t need to go very low carb and aim for ketosis - it may be sufficient to eat a moderate-low carb diet which you may find more flexible. It is all a matter of seeing what works for you.
Particularly if you can check with a BG meter to see how you are reacting to different foods/meals.
As far as I am aware there is no robust clinical evidence (like a double blind RCT) that they have any effect at all. I don’t know that there is much if anything in the way of weak observational evidence either.
Frequently pushed / promoted / sold in quite a pushy and spammy way though which always makes me think someone is just out to con people out of hard earned money.
If you want to achieve nutritional ketosis you can achieve that simply by reducing carbohydrate in the diet. 🙂
But for blood glucose management you may find that you din’t need to go very low carb and aim for ketosis - it may be sufficient to eat a moderate-low carb diet which you may find more flexible. It is all a matter of seeing what works for you.
Particularly if you can check with a BG meter to see how you are reacting to different foods/meals.
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